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Blogging, Dodging Trolls and Death Threats: Just Another Day at Beirut.com

Blogging, writing for an online platform, or just plugging yourself into the vast wilderness that is the Internet in any way can be super difficult. You publicly open yourself up to criticism from complete strangers, and some of them can be downright nasty.

Haters can range from trolls to the bitterly and inexplicably hateful. In just the short time I’ve started writing for Beirut.com, I noticed how cruel people can be. Let’s take a look at three common types of meatslappers.







I’ve encountered this last kind of hater in the form of a graphic designer, and mainly it’s because of my illustrations. I can’t even begin to explain how many people have offered to “improve” my illustration skills even after I’ve explained that I deliberately simplify my illustrations in order to keep producing articles every week. Dwelling on details takes a long time. She is the same person who is a huge fan of comics like Cyanide and Happiness which consist of basically sticks with round heads. Kind of hypocritical sweetie, don’t you think?